(Fr.), "a thing;" used in the common law with divers epithets; as chose local, chose transitory, and chose in action. Chose local is such a thing as is annexed to a place, as a mill and the like; chose transitory is that thing which is moveable, and may be taken away, or carried from place to place; and chose in action is a thing incorporeal, and only a right, as an obligation for debt, annuity, &c. And generally all causes of suit for any debt, duty, or wrong, are to be accounted choses in action: and it seems, chose in action may be also called chose in suspense; because it hath no real existence or being, nor can properly be said to be in our possession.

CHOSROES I. the Great, king of Persia after his father Cabades, A.D. 532. He made peace with the Romans; but broke it the third year, and forced Justinian to a disadvantageous peace. Afterwards, he was so swelled with his victories, as to bid the emperor's ambassador follow him for audience to Cesarea; but Tiberius sent an army under Justinian, who made himself master of the country, and put Chosroes to death in 586.